“I don’t want this to happen anymore”

That’s what Ontario NDP Andrea Horwath said.  That’s a quote. Then, this afternoon, Toronto Star veteran Richard Brennan spotted this in Ottawa.

Bottom line?  Either Horwath didn’t mean what she said, or her followers don’t listen to her.  Neither possibility is helpful to her prospects.

Personally, I’m interested in how widespread this distasteful practice is.  If you spot another example of an NDP campaign trying to profit (politically or otherwise) on the passing of Jack Layton, let me know in comments or at wkinsella@hotmail.com.  Then I’ll post what you find.

Oh, and Andrea?  This is one of those reasons why so many regard your leadership as a great big disappointment.


Tea Party Tim, lawbreaker

TORONTO, Sept. 14, 2011 /CNW/ – In the ‘a photo is worth a thousand words’ department comes this photograph, taken this afternoon at the Albion Hotel in Guelph.  It shows the Ontario PC media bus in a spot where it clearly shouldn’t be.

On page 32 of the PC platform, Tim Hudak declares that Ontario PCs “support one law for everyone.”  That’s a quote.

As with the Ontario PC’s intolerant anti-newcomer policy, Tim Hudak thinks some Ontarians are more equal than others.

Image with caption: “One law for everyone? (CNW Group/Ontario Liberal Party)”. Image available at:http://photos.newswire.ca/images/download/20110914_C3413_PHOTO_EN_3300.jpg

 


Hudak Tea Party in third place in Toronto

Somewhere, Benedict Baldy is pausing to reflect, this morning.

What’s it all mean, Virginia? It means he’s in trouble. In urban centres – Toronto, obviously, but also Ottawa, Hamilton, London, Windsor and so on – his anti-“foreigner” nativism has hurt him, big time. He’s moved off of that, and now he’s going to start targeting Horwath. She’s in his rear view mirror, and closer than he’d like.


Promise

We’re having an okay couple of days.  So what does some right-wing asshole do?  He/she puts a piece of personalized hate mail in my mother’s mailbox.  She lives alone, in another city, and is near 80.  She called me, and she was upset.

So…we’re putting up security cameras at her place, now.  But – here’s a promise – if you go back, tough guy, I’m going to put you through a meat grinder, I swear to God.

That’s a promise.


Poll: McGuinty choice for best Premier; Ont. Libs deserve re-election

Wooot!

Now, back to work.

TORONTO – On the heels of an election poll that put the Liberals and Progressive Conservatives in a dead heat, exclusive new numbers suggest voters feel Dalton McGuinty would make the best Premier of Ontario.

An Ipsos Reid poll done for Global News found that four in ten (39%) voters believe McGuinty would make the best provincial leader, compared to only 31 per cent for PC Leader Tim Hudak. Twenty per cent of those polled said NDP leader Andrea Horwath would do the best job, while 10 per cent aren’t sure.

Perhaps even more telling is that almost two-thirds (63%) believe the province is now on the right track, a jump of 12 points in only one month.